The nice thing about hosting inference locally is that you can be sure you're not being rug-pulled in any way. This doesn't really help China 'win' though, it's just freeloading on them making their weights openly available.

The good thing is, we're only 2.5 years away from a top of the line MacBook having better local inference than CC Opus does today.

That's more than good enough if you're actually getting what CC Opus is capable of.

I've never been so excited for the future.